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Re: Containers: The Box That Changed The World
Author: WebDigger
Date: 04-28-2016 - 19:14
Dan Wrote:
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> I think the first container shipping and intermodal movement (ship-train-truck) was done by the White Pass & Yukon in 1955 or so. They had one or more ships that could unload the containers directly from the ship to the train. The only thing that happened shore side was spotting the cars. Pretty innovative for the time.
Thank You, Dan.
"The railroad was an early pioneer of intermodal freight traffic, commonly called containerization; advertising of the time referred to it as the Container Route. The WP&YR owned an early container ship (the Clifford J. Rogers, built in 1955), and in 1956 introduced containers, although these were far smaller than the truck-sized containers than came into use in the United States in 1956 and could not readily be handed off to other railroads or ship lines." [en.wikipedia.org]
Google search: [White Pass & Yukon containers]: [www.google.com]
I didn't dig to find out if "early" was the same as "first".
Here's the Wikipedia article on Containerization: [en.wikipedia.org]
And a Google search [first railroad container]: [www.google.com]
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> I think the first container shipping and intermodal movement (ship-train-truck) was done by the White Pass & Yukon in 1955 or so. They had one or more ships that could unload the containers directly from the ship to the train. The only thing that happened shore side was spotting the cars. Pretty innovative for the time.
Thank You, Dan.
"The railroad was an early pioneer of intermodal freight traffic, commonly called containerization; advertising of the time referred to it as the Container Route. The WP&YR owned an early container ship (the Clifford J. Rogers, built in 1955), and in 1956 introduced containers, although these were far smaller than the truck-sized containers than came into use in the United States in 1956 and could not readily be handed off to other railroads or ship lines." [en.wikipedia.org]
Google search: [White Pass & Yukon containers]: [www.google.com]
I didn't dig to find out if "early" was the same as "first".
Here's the Wikipedia article on Containerization: [en.wikipedia.org]
And a Google search [first railroad container]: [www.google.com]
